MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Seventy five— Dawn On The Road To Delvane
The sun came up slowly.
The way it does in the south.
Not all at once.
First just a line of colour at the edge of the hills.
Pale gold.
Then wider.
Then the whole sky changing.
Mara watched it through the window.
She had not slept.
None of them had.
But the sun coming up felt like something.
Like the specific permission to breathe that daylight sometimes gave.
She breathed.
Caius was asleep against the window beside her.
Finally.
She had felt him give in to it twenty minutes ago through the bond.
The slow warm shift of a man who had held himself completely upright for hours finally letting go.
She looked at him.
At the grey eyes closed.
At the jaw relaxed.
At the face that had spent twenty seven
